Dado

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dado \Da"do\, n.; pl. {Dadoes}. [It. dado die, cube, pedestal;
     of the same origin as E. die, n. See {Die}, n.] (Arch.)
     (a) That part of a pedestal included between the base and the
         cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of {Column}.
         Hence:
     (b) In any wall, that part of the basement included between


         the base and the base course. See {Base course}, under
         {Base}.
     (c) In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an
         apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise
         specially decorated. Daedal

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dado
       n 1: panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is
            finished differently from the rest [syn: {wainscot}]
       2: the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase
       3: a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece
          can fit into it
       v 1: provide with a dado; "The owners wanted to dado their dining
            room"
       2: cut a dado into or fit into a dado
       [also: {dadoes} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "dado":
     baluster, balustrade, banister, base, baseboard, basement, bezel,
     canal, canalize, carve, caryatid, chamfer, channel, chase, chassis,
     chink, chisel, colonnade, column, corrugate, corrugation, crack,
     cranny, crimp, cut, die, dike, ditch, engrave, engraving, flute,
     fluting, foot, footing, footstalk, foundation, frame, furrow, gash,
     goffer, gouge, groove, gully, incise, incision, jack, keel,
     microgroove, mopboard, nadir, newel-post, pedestal, pedicel,
     peduncle, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pleat, plinth,
     plow, pole, post, queen-post, rabbet, rifle, rifling, ruck, rut,
     score, scratch, shaft, shoemold, slit, socle, sole, staff, stalk,
     stanchion, stand, standard, stem, streak, stria, striate,
     striation, subbase, sulcation, sulcus, surbase, toe, trench,
     trough, trunk, upright, wainscot, well-worn groove, wrinkle